Description and condition: Blue cloth hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 313pp text, 32pp illustrations, index, b/w illustrations. Very good with former owners private library number on the half-title page, else with nice bright clean pages. In good, clipped, dustcover with a triangular piece cut out of the spine and moderate wear.
Contents: Part I France: France and the Anglo-Saxon; early French painting; Claude and Poussin; the Eighteenth century in France; classics and romantics; the Japanese; Manet and his successors. Part II England: the earlier English painters; the Eighteenth century in England; the age of Turner; the Victorians, the Post-Victorians. Volume three in the series of 'The National Gallery'. |